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deiparous

deiparous adjective: giving birth to a god or goddess.

Adjective

deiparous (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Giving birth to a god or goddess.
    • Mother of God, deiparous Mary, not even her lineage is clear: her father may have been Joachim, a sheepman rich in flocks, and her mother the prophetess Anna (James the Less tells of these things), and right it is that their names when taken together spell Grace prepared by God, the which might...1980, John B. Sanford, To feed their hopes: a book of American women
    • god sees a deiparous woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, standing with a newborn child and a dragon, holding a notarikon, ICH THY'S END, in a bed that is lawful to carry on in.2014, Neil Baker, Occultus Liber: A Novel by Neil Baker

Forms of deiparous

alternative formDeiparous

Origin of deiparous

From Latin deus (“god”) + -parous, calque from Ancient Greek Θεοτόκος (Theotókos, “birth-giver of God”), a traditional title of the Virgin Mary.

Questions about deiparous

What does deiparous mean?
Deiparous means giving birth to a god or goddess.
What part of speech is deiparous?
Deiparous is an adjective.

Words near deiparous in the dictionary

  1. deionizer
  2. deionizers
  3. deionizes
  4. deionizing
  5. Deipara
  6. deiparous
  7. deiphonine
  8. deiphonines
  9. deipn-
  10. deipno-
  11. deipnophobia

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